Human Growth and Development / Unit 12 HGD 1655 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture and the Social Clock
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The idea
Turkish young adults' life satisfaction rose with on-time marriage and parenthood, while Swiss young adults' rose with education and independent living.
In practice
US young adults from immigrant and minority families framing adulthood as interdependence rather than independence.
Where people slip
Today's young adults treat milestones as flexible, not as prerequisites for maturity, an adaptation to rapid change.
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